Alexander Gardner: Media

American photographer

Videos

Find out how Civil War photography brought home the realities of war
How documentary photographers brought home the realities of military life and death...
Video: © Civil War Trust (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Images

Timothy H. O'Sullivan: photograph of a dead Confederate soldier at Gettysburg battlefield
Dead Confederate sharpshooter at Devil's Den, near Little Round Top, Gettysburg,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Battle of Antietam: Lincoln and McClellan meet in the general's tent
President Abraham Lincoln and General George B. McClellan in the general's tent,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. LC-DIG-cwpb-01131)
Battle of Antietam: Confederate dead
Confederate dead by a fence on the Hagerstown road, Antietam, Maryland, photo by...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-B8171-0560 DLC)
Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg, by Alexander Gardner, 1863
George Eastman House Collection
Gardner, Alexander: Booth, John Wilkes
John Wilkes Booth, albumen carte-de-visite, photograph by Alexander Gardner,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-19233)
Abraham Lincoln
U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln, February 5, 1865, photograph by Alexander Gardner.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, photograph by Alexander Gardner, 1863.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital file no. 3a53289)